[Foundation-l] Polish Chapter founded

[Daniel Mayer]

Great news!

--- TOR <tor at oak.rpg.pl> wrote:

> Dear fellow Wikimedians,
> 
> I am happy to inform you, that "Stowarzyszenie Wikimedia Polska" 
> (Wikimedia Polska Association), the Polish Chapter of Wikimedia 
> Foundation, has been founded this sunday in Krakow, during a larger two 
> day event called "Wikimedia Polska 2005 Meetup". More than 25 founding 
> members signed the documents.
> 
> Five Wikimedians were pre-elected to the Board of Wikimedia Polska:
> - £ukasz Garczewski (pl:User:TOR), as president;
> - Piotr Cywiñski (pl:User:Wulfstan), as vice-president;
> - Tomasz Ganicz (pl:User:Polimerek), as tresurer;
> - Dariusz Siedlecki (pl:User:Datrio), as scretary;
> - Jadwiga Andrychowska-Biegacz (pl:User:Jadwiga), as board member.
> 
> We still have to get the documents to court and take care of all the 
> formalities, but we can already see new possibilites opening up before us.
> 
> Please visit http://pl.wikimedia.org/ for more information and the 
> latest news on the Polish Chapter if you want to keep up to date. We 
> will translate the important pages into English ASAP.
> 
> If you need to contact the Polish Chapter, feel free to msg me (TOR_CNR) 
> or Datrio on #wikimedia on IRC, leave a message on our talk pages on 
> pl.wikimedia.org (or meta) or e-mail us (addresses can be found on meta).
> 
> Chapters aside, you can view the photos taken during the meetup on the 
> Commons under http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Polish_Wikimedia_Meetup_2005
> or in Polish (if you want to practice our wonderfully difficult language 
> by reading the cations) under:
>
http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Zlot_Wikimedia_Polska_2005/Zdj%C4%99cia
> 
> I'd also like to thank everyone whose work and dedication made both the 
> Chapter and the meetup possible. Special thanks go to Datrio, Wulfstan 
> and G-dam for all the hard work they've done on the bylaws and to 
> Jadwiga for organizing things in Krakow wonderfully.
> 
> And a big thank you to Tim Shell (who attended the meetup and had to put 
> up with us Poles for two days :)) for all the patience, kind words and 
> encouragement!
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
> Lucas "TOR" Garczewski
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